For Jim M

What I have are three spots where freight is transfered from the narrow gauge to the standard gauge and vice versa. I would like to have these spots load/unload in 8 hours so that they can be switched twice in an operating session just to keep cars moving. In the real railroad world things tend to take a little longer. In the model railroad world, operators tend to get antsy if they aren't doing something all the time. Just my observations. It takes us about 6 hours to run a 24 hour train schedule. I am using the classic operating mode where the update is run after all the trains have been run.  Using update 359. I have been playing around with this on my practice railroad with mixed results. In order to keep my confusion to a minimum I am going to ask questions one at a time. No. 1. The one thing I have observed is that the customer loading/unloading time can be set from 0-24 hours. When I go to the waybill loading/unloading times there are two times. There is the demurrage free unloading time which is commonly 24 hours and then there is the loading time where there are a variety of minutes and 2,4 & 8 hour times listed. Do the customer loading/unloading time and the two waybill loading/unloading times have to be the same?? What I am seeing is cars being picked up after the customer loading/unloading time has expired but they won't have been loaded/unloaded and then are taken to the yard and then routed back to the same spot until the end of the session and the update is run for the next session. I have a lot of waybills and I don't want to start changing all those times if that is not the problem.

Thanks     Fred K